Today’s Central City Association meeting was on the 47th floor of one of the many buildings that have been built since I left Los Angeles in the 1980s (and there are many!)

The views of Southern California were spectacular today. From the ocean to Mt Wilson and everything in between. The meeting room was a model for one of the thousands of residential and commercial spaces that will be part of this complex once completed. would be a lot of fun to live in one, although I’m not sure Jasper would take to being a condo pup. 

It was also wonderful to see the new Wilshire Grand building from this perspective. Once finished, the 73-story gem will be the tallest building on the West Coast (at least for a few months until a taller one in Seattle is completed). Hard to imagine when I wrote the Central City Association’s report on the future of downtown development in 1981 that I would actually get to see the results.